Preparation and Inventories

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Preparation and Inventories

Given the interest in the thread on "suicide" bombers (a misnomer at best, just flat dishonest at worst), threads on 2A threats, and other threads on various types of "preparations", I am curious about the ammunition inventories most might be be "comfortable" having on hand. After dwelling on a few threads tonight, I'll volunteer my thoughts for speculation:

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."

No - I have my levels and yes I do reload so that is a factor. I keep ''plenty'' of handgun ammo and consumables. For rifle I buy by the case and keep a good bit aside. Milsurp is where figures run highest as at times good deals available to up the quantities.

I feel there is a compromize point - and while feeling the more the better, there is the budget and bills to pay aspect too. Let's say - I do not feel too uncomfortable with my current level of ''stock".

I think 10k is a bit much... If guns or ammo are ever outlawed, you wont be shooting much so why have all that on hand?
If the sky ever falls there will be plenty of ammo around. Thats why I like common ammo types, such as 9mm, 45acp, .223, .308 and 12ga. I do keep a modest amount of each, and when SHTF I should have very little trouble finding ammo.

I'd like to have a few thousand per caliber (although the .44 cap and ball I prolly don't need that much lying around for). But being a college kid, I'm doing pretty good if I can keep a few hundred per caliber around. I also try to buy firearms the same caliber as ones I already own to keep things simple.

I selected 1-5K rds per caliber. Can't see packing more than this into the car, should I need to bug out. I've got about 2K rds in 9mm and 5.56x45mm right now.

Would take the 9mm and 5.56, but would drop the rest at the cache and leave it. Either bugging out or holing up are the two likely options. If holing up, I'd make do. It's highly unlikely that a protracted situation would wind up with me expending thousands of rounds of any caliber. With my weapons and preparation, I'm not going "out there" to contend with BG's in firefights, so a smaller cache of ammo would last me a good long while.

Hmmm.. good one. I have components for 5,000 in handgun, loaded about under a thousand right now. Rifle should be close to three thousand if Sportsmanguide finishes delivering the order I placed in December. I am woefully short for shotgun...maybe 200 adding all types. The levels are about right for my level of shooting right now.

If I could, I would probably have at least 3-4,000 rounds available per caliber, but seeing as I live in a moderately sized apartment with an anti wife, I tend to only keep a few hundred rounds of each, perhaps a case here and there hidden away.

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